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Slave Old Man
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Slave Old Man Paperback / softback - 2019

by Patrick Chamoiseau

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Now in paperback, this gripping, profoundly unsettling novel shares the tale of an elderly slave's daring escape into the wild from a plantation in Martinique, with his master and a fearsome hound on his heels.

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  • Title Slave Old Man
  • Author Patrick Chamoiseau
  • Binding Paperback / softback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New Press
  • Date 2019-10-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # A9781620975886
  • ISBN 9781620975886 / 1620975882
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.4 x 5.2 x 0.6 in (18.80 x 13.21 x 1.52 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 843.914

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From the publisher

Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, Patrick Chamoiseau's Slave Old Man was published to accolades in hardcover in a brilliant translation by Linda Coverdale, winning the French-American Foundation Translation Prize and chosen as a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018.

Now in paperback, Slave Old Man is a gripping, profoundly unsettling story of an elderly enslaved person's daring escape into the wild from a plantation in Martinique, with his enslaver and a fearsome hound on his heels. We follow them into a lush rain forest where nature is beyond all human control: sinister, yet entrancing and even exhilarating, because the old man's flight to freedom will transform them all in truly astonishing-even otherworldly-ways, as the overwhelming physical presence of the forest reshapes reality and time itself.

Chamoiseau's exquisitely rendered new novel is an adventure for all time, one that fearlessly portrays the demonic cruelties of the slave trade and its human costs in vivid, sometimes hallucinatory prose. Offering a loving and mischievous tribute to the Creole culture of early nineteenth-century Martinique, this novel takes us on a unique and moving journey into the heart of Caribbean history.

About the author

Patrick Chamoiseau is the author of Texaco, which won the Prix Goncourt and was a New York Times Notable Book, as well as Creole Folktales and Slave Old Man (The New Press), among other works. He lives in Martinique.

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